Studies in Indian Art c12.s6.27

c12.s6.27

12. *Vaṃśī-vīṇā-vādinī*,—Woman playing the flute and the harp. The flute has special association in the history of music at Mathura, and it is therefore gratifying to find several fragments of railing pillars on which woman playing the flute are shown. The harp or the *sapta-tantrī vīṇā* is common not only at Mathura but at almost all other centres of ancient Indian art, and its representation at Mathura also is fairly common both in stone and clay.